Heaven’s ambassador

South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein gave a fitting tribute to Yehuda Avner, who died last week. Ambassador Avner, advisor and speechwriter to five Israeli Prime Ministers, brought “kindness, faith and justice to a world which so desperately needs these Torah values now more than ever.”http://www.jpost.com/landedpages/printarticle.aspx?id=395268

A Technion Passover miracle

Here is a video of how students at Israel’s Technion Institute put together a “moving” account of the Passover story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baQfqoZrEvI

IsraelActive is launched

I have great pleasure in launching IsraelActive.com – my brand new on-line database of positive news stories from Israel. Now you easily search 7000 news articles about the beneficial work that Israel is doing on every subject and in every part of the world. Thanks to Jake Binstein who built IsraelActive.http://israelactive.com/